Murine cytomegalovirus paralyzes macrophages by blocking IFN gamma-induced promoter assembly.

abstract：:The polyhedral borane ion [n-B20H18]2- reacts with liquid ammonia in the presence of a suitable base to produce an apical-equatorial (ae) isomer of the [B20H17NH3]3- ion, [1-(2'-B10H9)-2-NH3B10H8]3-. The structure of this product has been confirmed by 11B NMR spectroscopy and x-ray crystallography. This species underg...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Feakes DA,Shelly K,Knobler CB,Hawthorne MF

更新日期：1994-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:A system is described for assembling infectious bacteriophage phi 6 nucleocapsids in vitro. Procapsids encoded by cDNA copies of genomic segment L in Escherichia coli were used to package and replicate viral RNA segments. The resulting filled particles were shown to be capable of infecting host cell spheroplasts after...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Olkkonen VM,Gottlieb P,Strassman J,Qiao XY,Bamford DH,Mindich L

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell cycle checkpoints are evolutionarily conserved surveillance systems that protect genomic stability and prevent oncogenesis in mammals. One important target of checkpoint control is ribonucleotide reductase (RNR), which catalyzes the rate-limiting step in dNTP and DNA synthesis. In both yeast and humans, RNR is tr...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Zhao X,Rothstein R

更新日期：2002-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:We applied the directional tag PCR subtractive hybridization method to construct a rat hypothalamic cDNA library from which cerebellar and hippocampal sequences had been depleted, enriching 20-30-fold for sequences expressed selectively in the hypothalamus. We studied a sample of 94 clones selected for enrichment in t...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Gautvik KM,de Lecea L,Gautvik VT,Danielson PE,Tranque P,Dopazo A,Bloom FE,Sutcliffe JG

更新日期：1996-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Radiation leukemia virus, isolated from radiation-induced lymphomas in C57BL/Ka mice and propagated in that strain, is thymotropic and leukemogenic in vivo but replicates poorly, if at all, in mouse and mink fibroblast cultures in vitro. Comparative studies indicate that this naturally occurring virus is distinct from...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Declève A,Lieberman M,Ihle JN,Kaplan HS

更新日期：1976-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arsenic, a curative agent for acute promyelocytic leukemia, induces cell apoptosis and degradation of BCR-ABL in chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML). We demonstrated that ubiquitination and degradation of BCR-ABL was mediated by c-CBL, a RING-type E3 ligase that was also shown to be involved in ubiquitination for many ...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Mao JH,Sun XY,Liu JX,Zhang QY,Liu P,Huang QH,Li KK,Chen Q,Chen Z,Chen SJ

更新日期：2010-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The ATR (ATM- and rad3-related)-mediated checkpoint pathway has a crucial role in regulating the cellular responses to DNA damage and DNA-replication stress. ATRIP (ATR-interacting protein), the regulatory partner of ATR, binds directly to replication protein A (RPA)-coated ssDNA and enables the ATR-ATRIP complex to r...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Namiki Y,Zou L

更新日期：2006-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The second structure of a eukaryotic RNA polymerase II so far determined, that of the enzyme from the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe, is reported here. Comparison with the previous structure of the enzyme from the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae reveals differences in regions implicated in start site s...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Spåhr H,Calero G,Bushnell DA,Kornberg RD

更新日期：2009-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular dynamics simulations of the response to oscillating electric field elicited from an altitudinal dipolar molecular rotor mounted on the Au(111) surface and previously studied experimentally in static fields show unidirectional rotation in one of the three pairs of conformational enantiomers. The simulations a...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Horinek D,Michl J

更新日期：2005-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Programmed death-1 (PD-1) regulates T cell exhaustion during chronic infections. Blocking the PD-1:PD-ligand (PD-L) pathway reinvigorates exhausted CD8 T cells. Exactly how blocking PD-1:PD-L interactions improves T cell immunity, however, remains unclear. PD-1:PD-L blockade could reprogram all exhausted T cells to be...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Blackburn SD,Shin H,Freeman GJ,Wherry EJ

更新日期：2008-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Speech recognition involves three processes: extraction of acoustic indices from the speech signal, estimation of the probability that the observed index string was caused by a hypothesized utterance segment, and determination of the recognized utterance via a search among hypothesized alternatives. This paper is not ...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Jelinek F

更新日期：1995-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The partial amino acid sequences of human T-cell growth factors (TCGFs) isolated from normal peripheral blood lymphocytes and from a leukemia T-cell line (Jurkat) show that the amino-terminal sequences of the two proteins (15 residues) are identical. Oligonucleotides based on the published Jurkat TCGF DNA sequence wer...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Clark SC,Arya SK,Wong-Staal F,Matsumoto-Kobayashi M,Kay RM,Kaufman RJ,Brown EL,Shoemaker C,Copeland T,Oroszlan S

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuropeptide B (NPB) and neuropeptide W (NPW) have been recently identified as ligands for the G protein-coupled receptor (GPR) 7 and GPR8. The precise in vivo role of this neuropeptide-receptor pathway has not been fully demonstrated. In this paper, we report that NPB-deficient mice manifest a mild adult-onset obesit...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Kelly MA,Beuckmann CT,Williams SC,Sinton CM,Motoike T,Richardson JA,Hammer RE,Garry MG,Yanagisawa M

更新日期：2005-07-12 00:00:00

abstract：:An unstable allele of the bronze 2 (bz2) locus was isolated from a Robertson's Mutator Zea mays line containing a family of active transposable Mu elements. This mutation is somatically unstable, resulting in numerous revertant purple sectors on a bronze kernel. By following the variegated kernel phenotype through two...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Chandler VL,Walbot V

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) have recently joined the list of cell surface receptors that dimerize. Dimerization has been shown to alter the ligand-binding, signaling, and trafficking properties of these receptors. Recent studies have shown that GPCRs heterodimerize with closely related members, resulting in th...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Jordan BA,Trapaidze N,Gomes I,Nivarthi R,Devi LA

更新日期：2001-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein kinase C (PKC) phosphorylation stimulates the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) channel and enhances its activation by protein kinase A (PKA) through mechanisms that remain poorly understood. We have examined the effects of mutating consensus sequences for PKC phosphorylation and repor...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Chappe V,Hinkson DA,Howell LD,Evagelidis A,Liao J,Chang XB,Riordan JR,Hanrahan JW

更新日期：2004-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:X-ray diffraction studies have produced a low resolution image and also located the iron atoms of a monomeric hemerythrin from muscles of a sipunculan worm. These results reveal the course of the polypeptide chain and some details of the active center. ...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Hendrickson WA,Klippenstein GL,Ward KB

更新日期：1975-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Retrograde axonal transport plays an important role in the maintenance of neuronal functions, but the mechanism is poorly defined partly because the constituents of the retrograde transport system and their interactions have yet to be elucidated. Of special interest is how dynein/dynactin motor proteins interact with ...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Liu JJ,Ding J,Wu C,Bhagavatula P,Cui B,Chu S,Mobley WC,Yang Y

更新日期：2007-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Granulocyte-colony stimulating factor (G-CSF) induces differentiation of M1 murine myeloid leukemia cells into mature granulocytes/macrophages and also causes accumulation of the cells in the G1 phase of the cell cycle. We examined, therefore, whether synchronization of M1 cells in the G1 phase could affect G-CSF-indu...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Tsuda H,Neckers LM,Pluznik DH

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA methylation may be a component of a multilevel control mechanism that regulates eukaryotic gene expression. We used synthetic oligonucleotides to investigate the effect of cytosine methylation on the binding of the transcription factor Sp1 to its target sequence (a G + C-rich sequence known as a "GC box"). Concate...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Harrington MA,Jones PA,Imagawa M,Karin M

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using animal models of acinar and ductal pancreatic cancer, we investigated the effect of analogs of hypothalamic hormones on tumor growth. In Wistar/Lewis rats bearing the acinar pancreatic tumor DNCP-322, chronic administration of [L-5-Br-Trp8]somatostatin-14 significantly decreased tumor weights and volume. Somatos...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Redding TW,Schally AV

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An unbiased survey has been made of the stable, most abundant multi-protein complexes in Desulfovibrio vulgaris Hildenborough (DvH) that are larger than Mr approximately 400 k. The quaternary structures for 8 of the 16 complexes purified during this work were determined by single-particle reconstruction of negatively ...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Han BG,Dong M,Liu H,Camp L,Geller J,Singer M,Hazen TC,Choi M,Witkowska HE,Ball DA,Typke D,Downing KH,Shatsky M,Brenner SE,Chandonia JM,Biggin MD,Glaeser RM

更新日期：2009-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Elucidation of the molecular details of the cyclic actomyosin interaction requires the ability to examine structural changes at specific sites in the actin-binding interface of myosin. To study these changes dynamically, we have expressed two mutants of a truncated fragment of chicken gizzard smooth muscle myosin, whi...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Yengo CM,Fagnant PM,Chrin L,Rovner AS,Berger CL

更新日期：1998-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Buffering variability in morphogen distribution is essential for reproducible patterning. A theoretically proposed class of mechanisms, termed "distal pinning," achieves robustness by combining local sensing of morphogen levels with global modulation of gradient spread. Here, we demonstrate a critical role for morphog...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Rahimi N,Carmon S,Averbukh I,Khajouei F,Sinha S,Schejter ED,Barkai N,Shilo BZ

更新日期：2020-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The phagocyte NADPH oxidase, dormant in resting cells, is activated during phagocytosis to produce superoxide, a precursor of microbicidal oxidants. The activated oxidase is a complex of membrane-integrated cytochrome b558, composed of 91-kDa (gp91phox) and 22-kDa (p22phox) subunits, and two cytosolic factors (p47phox...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Sumimoto H,Kage Y,Nunoi H,Sasaki H,Nose T,Fukumaki Y,Ohno M,Minakami S,Takeshige K

更新日期：1994-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:We have employed a combination of temperature-dependent UV absorption spectroscopy, circular dichroism, and batch calorimetry to characterize the binding of actinomycin D to a series of oligomeric DNA duplexes. We find the duplex [d(CGTCGACG)]2 to be unique in its ability to bind actinomycin D strongly despite the abs...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Snyder JG,Hartman NG,D'Estantoit BL,Kennard O,Remeta DP,Breslauer KJ

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence indicates that the modulatory effects of the adrenergic stress hormone epinephrine as well as several other neuromodulatory systems on memory storage are mediated by activation of beta-adrenergic mechanisms in the amygdala. In view of our recent findings indicating that the amygdala is involved in mediating t...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Quirarte GL,Roozendaal B,McGaugh JL

更新日期：1997-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Endogenous retroviruses (ERVs) are the remnants of ancient retroviral infections of germ cells and have been maintained in whole or part as heritable genomic elements. The last known endogenization events occurred several million years ago, and therefore stepwise analysis of retroviral endogenization has not been poss...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Oliveira NM,Satija H,Kouwenhoven IA,Eiden MV

更新日期：2007-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Yawn contagion in humans has been proposed to be related to our capacity for empathy. It is presently unclear whether this capacity is uniquely human or shared with other primates, especially monkeys. Here, we show that in gelada baboons (Theropithecus gelada) yawning is contagious between individuals, especially thos...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Palagi E,Leone A,Mancini G,Ferrari PF

更新日期：2009-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The biosynthesis of rebeccamycin, an antitumor compound, involves the remarkable eight-electron oxidation of chlorinated chromopyrrolic acid. Although one rebeccamycin biosynthetic enzyme is capable of generating low levels of the eight-electron oxidation product on its own, a second protein, RebC, is required to acce...

journal_title：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors： Ryan KS,Howard-Jones AR,Hamill MJ,Elliott SJ,Walsh CT,Drennan CL

更新日期：2007-09-25 00:00:00